银行王朝最佳读物：摩根之家
对于即将到来的那些漫长的冬夜，可能没有比获奖作家罗恩切尔诺 (Ron Chernow)长达 800 页的《摩根之家：美国银行业王朝与现代金融的兴起》更值得深入研究的银行账簿了。摩根为切尔诺赢得了非小说类国家图书奖。
Chrernow 是许多富人或名人或美国人及其家人的编年史家，包括老约翰·D·洛克菲勒、亚历山大·汉密尔顿（改编成长期上演的百老汇热播剧《汉密尔顿》 ）、乔治·华盛顿：一生，他因此获得了普利策奖非虚构类作品奖，以及 Warburg 家族，一位著名的德国犹太人，然后是德裔美国犹太人，银行业家族。
在《摩根之家》中，切尔诺将读者带入“旧华尔街——精英、俱乐部，并由神秘的小合伙企业主导”，其中包括摩根家族和他们的“家族”、银行——从 1838 年到 1989 年在伦敦，1861 年到1989 年在纽约，1868 年至 1975 年在巴黎1854 年，族长 Junius Spencer Morgan 接受了美国人 George Peabody 的邀请，成为他在伦敦 George Peabody and Company 的初级合伙人后，开始了他的吉祥之路。
皮博迪 60 多岁，体弱多病，单身，没有孩子（至少在法律上没有孩子），他在当时中年的摩根身上找到了继任者。切尔诺的书详细描述了皮博迪的公司如何以及为何在他于 1864 年退休后成为全球摩根大通公司。然后它记录了家族企业的许多表现——他们的高度、政治权力和商业丑闻——以及个别家族成员的个人起起落落。
Best Read on a Banking Dynasty: The House of Morgan
For those long winter nights ahead, there may be no better banking book to delve into than the 800-page The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, by the award-winning author Ron Chernow. Morgan won Chernow the National Book Award for nonfiction.
Chrernow is a chronicler of many wealthy or prominent or both Americans and their families, including John D. Rockefeller Sr., Alexander Hamilton (adapted into the long-running Broadway hit Hamilton), George Washington: A Life, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, and the Warburgs, a prominent German Jewish, then German American Jewish, banking family.
In The House of Morgan, Chernow takes the reader from the “old Wall Street—elite, clubby, and dominated by small mysterious partnerships, “which included the Morgans and their “houses,” banks—from 1838 to 1989 in London, 1861 to 1989 in New York, and 1868 to 1975 in Paris. The patriarch Junius Spencer Morgan began his auspicious climb to the top after he accepted American George Peabody’s offer to be his junior partner in 1854 at the London firm George Peabody and Company.
Peabody, who was in his 60s and ailing, single, and childless (at least legally childless), found in the then-middle-age Morgan a successor. Chernow’s book details how and why Peabody’s company would become after his retirement in 1864 the global J.P. Morgan and Associates. It then chronicles the many manifestations of the family businesses—their heights, political power, and business scandals—and the personal ups and downs of individual family members.